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Alhaji Mubarak Mohammed Muntaka, the Minister of the Interior, says Ghana, in the interim, is using sniffer dogs to detect suspected narcotic substances at the airport and other key entry points due to broken down body and baggage scanners. The Ministry, he said, had made dedicated budgetary provision to procure new modern and sophisticated body and baggage scanners, instead of repairing the broken-down ones. He explained the decision to acquire new body and baggage scanners, he explained, was because of cost benefit analysis conducted by the Ministry and technical challenges encountered in repairing the broken-down scanners at the airport. The Interior Minister made this known on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday when responding to an urgent question posed by John...

Thousands of Sudanese people have fled to neighbouring Chad for refuge Chad has condemned a senior Sudanese general's threat to target its airports, calling it a "declaration of war." Its foreign ministry said it would respond according to international law if a "square metre of Chadian territory is threatened". The warning follows comments from Lt-Gen Yasir al-Atta, the deputy commander of Sudan's army, who said the UAE was using Chad's airports to deliver weapons to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The Sudanese army has repeatedly accused the UAE of supporting its rival, the RSF, throughout the brutal two-year civil war, which has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. UN experts have described accusations of the UAE smuggling weapons to the...

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Ghana now uses sniffer dogs for detecting suspected narcotics due to dysfunctional detective scanners at airport-Minister

Chad condemns Sudan’s airport threat as ‘declaration of war’